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Brownlow Medallist
Sanders got 20 touches for the fifth time in his career on the weekend.
He's tracking far better than other top 15 selection midfielders that others don't seem to be so worried about, (McKenzie, Hobbs, Tsatas, Phillipou, Erasmus etc.
It's a good sign that in his first year he's being trusted to play meaningful midfield minutes, and understands how to play that role that he know how to get his hands on it. There's plenty of players that look skilled and look like they can play a variety of roles but just seem to disappear in games and don't seem to have value despite looking good early in their career, even if they don't get their hands on the footy a lot. (looking at my favourite example of everyone's I-rate-him first-year player, Lukas Webb
, who many would have predicted would have played 100+ games for us at stages within his first 10 games for us).
The range of future outcomes is still massive than him. After year one, it looked like Josh Ward was the star and Finn Callaghan was not. Flipped on its head.
All we can ask is for Sanders to continue to establish himself in the best 22 and offer positive value, and develop his game. Not every player is going to be a star or even get 50 Brownlow votes.
Lots can play out whether it's a good pick or not. Plenty of Dogs fans e.g. wrote of Farren Ray
early in his career. In the end, after he went to Saints and North, he turned out to be one of the better players from an exceptionally weak 2003 draft class, as one of only 11 players to play 200 games. While he only got 9 career Brownlow votes - and I honestly expect Sanders to get more - in retrospect, the Ray pick was fine, as discounting mature agers/father sons that were unavaliable, only six players drafted after Ray got more Brownlow votes in their career than him.
He's tracking far better than other top 15 selection midfielders that others don't seem to be so worried about, (McKenzie, Hobbs, Tsatas, Phillipou, Erasmus etc.
It's a good sign that in his first year he's being trusted to play meaningful midfield minutes, and understands how to play that role that he know how to get his hands on it. There's plenty of players that look skilled and look like they can play a variety of roles but just seem to disappear in games and don't seem to have value despite looking good early in their career, even if they don't get their hands on the footy a lot. (looking at my favourite example of everyone's I-rate-him first-year player, Lukas Webb
PLAYERCARDSTART
Lukas Webb
- Age
- 28
- Ht
- 187cm
- Wt
- 84kg
- Pos.
- Fwd
Career
Season
Last 5
- D
- 11.3
- 3star
- K
- 5.8
- 2star
- HB
- 5.5
- 4star
- M
- 2.5
- 3star
- T
- 2.5
- 4star
- G
- 0.3
- 3star
No current season stats available
- D
- 12.8
- 4star
- K
- 7.8
- 3star
- HB
- 5.0
- 4star
- M
- 4.4
- 4star
- T
- 1.4
- 4star
- G
- 0.0
- 1star
PLAYERCARDEND
The range of future outcomes is still massive than him. After year one, it looked like Josh Ward was the star and Finn Callaghan was not. Flipped on its head.
All we can ask is for Sanders to continue to establish himself in the best 22 and offer positive value, and develop his game. Not every player is going to be a star or even get 50 Brownlow votes.
Lots can play out whether it's a good pick or not. Plenty of Dogs fans e.g. wrote of Farren Ray
PLAYERCARDSTART
Farren Ray
- Age
- 38
- Ht
- 187cm
- Wt
- 84kg
- Pos.
- Mid
Career
Season
Last 5
- D
- 18.0
- 4star
- K
- 9.9
- 4star
- HB
- 8.1
- 5star
- M
- 4.7
- 4star
- T
- 2.7
- 4star
- CL
- 1.7
- 4star
No current season stats available
- D
- 8.2
- 2star
- K
- 4.6
- 2star
- HB
- 3.6
- 3star
- M
- 2.4
- 3star
- T
- 0.6
- 3star
PLAYERCARDEND